Etienne Lebas is graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC-Nancy) and was awarded a PhD in process engineering by the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine. He has been project manager at IFP where, in particular, he coordinated several collaborative research projects in the field of oxy-combustion CO2 capture. He is currently president of Ecoren, a company specialised in biomass combustion.